214. The High Five Habit & Self-Encouragement - An Interview with Mel Robbins
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Do you think that you have to be mean to yourself to achieve your goals? Our culture conditions us to associate self-criticism with achievement, and to believe that if we’re kind to ourselves as we pursue our goals, we’ll never get sh*t done.
Here to challenge that narrative is bestselling author, lawyer, syndicated daytime talk show host, and motivational speaker Mel Robbins. Tune in to learn about how Mel came to realize that her self-critical habits were harming her more than they were helping her, and how you can achieve more than you ever thought possible by motivating yourself with kindness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, |
| 0:24.7 | Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, my chickens. |
| 0:30.6 | I think today's episode is going to hurt your brain a little bit so I just want to be prepared. |
| 0:36.0 | Hurt my brain a little bit. I will be honest with you when I first heard from Mel about coming on my podcast and the topic of her new book. |
| 0:45.0 | I was a little bit like, I don't know, like I really teach my students that, you know, they have to change their thought practices and that you know taking an action without |
| 0:55.0 | changing your thought isn't going to solve your problem and so when I heard from her |
| 0:58.7 | about the high-five habit which we're going to be talking about this interview I |
| 1:02.0 | definitely was a little bit like I don't know is it a fit but I super respect Mal of course and she is a legend and so I decided like I would teach you all to be open-minded about it. |
| 1:14.6 | And so I'm so glad I did because we had such an interesting conversation about the kind of |
| 1:19.4 | of neural and biological feedback loops between thoughts and |
| 1:23.4 | actions and how we can use physical actions sometimes to help us kind of |
| 1:29.6 | hack our brains even faster. |
| 1:32.2 | So I think it's a really like deepening rich topic of study in the world |
| 1:36.7 | and this book is an amazing contribution to it. And so we're going to talk about that in this episode. |
| 1:42.2 | I also want to tell you that I have a big announcement coming. |
| 1:48.4 | I do look at the things that you all Google about me. |
| 1:50.9 | I will not be announcing my partner's name or my address or my net worth, which are |
| 1:57.0 | the three things apparently that people Google the most about me, which is interesting and |
| 2:01.9 | slightly concerning. |
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